

Satché is about to die. He decides to make his last day on this world the day of his life.
Cinematography
Dakar becomes a breathing, sweating character.
Acting
Saul Williams moves like a man already becoming memory.
Score
Underground hip-hop and silence, perfectly weighted.

Director
Alain Gomis
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gomis shot this between France and Senegal, capturing a Dakar rarely seen on screen — not poverty porn, just living.
Saul Williams was primarily known as a slam poet; this was his first lead role, and he learned Wolof phonetically for weeks.